custom pages for 100s of domains

[HeavyLifting]

hello:

i have a couple hundred domains and i want them all to display the same page, but with a custom header and maybe some other customization.

i have my own server, and know PHP - so i'm sure there is a relatively efficient way of doing this. i don't know much about DNS or apache so i just need a little help getting started.

anybody know what i'm asking for and have ideas?

an example of somebody doing this already is UltSearch. this is a company that has thousands and thousands of domains. they all look the same. an example is chin.com. you can see it has a custom page title.

i want to do the same thing.

thanks in advance for any tips.

charlie

[Customb]

We can do this bit of software for you. Please PM to discuss more.

[Nexus]

If you can wait a bit, we'll be releasing some software that does this in a month or so. Contact me if you would like to become a free beta tester. Won't help your situation immediately though, sorry.

~ Nexus

[HeavyLifting]

chatcher:

i would use PHP but that looks like the basic idea. how do you get all of our domains pointed to index.cgi? i assume your host's DNS has all of them pointed to your server's IP. but what happens then? how do you 'catch' them all without setting up virtual hosts? sorry if that's a silly question.

thanks for your help!

charlie

[HeavyLifting]

my server is running ensim, so default goes to an ensim page, not the first virtual server :(

but i think you've given me enough data to investigate myself and build a solution.

feel free to leave any more info you think might help

thanks a bunch!!!

charlie

[David G]

Originally posted by Customb We can do this bit of software for you. Please PM to discuss more.

Sending this via post since the PM seems to not be working at this time. It hangs-up.

I want to do this too almost excatly the same situation. Can you help me do this?

I have my own raq server, several hundred names/sites, but do not know php, etc.

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From Android - hello: i have a couple hundred domains and i want them all to display the same page, but with a custom header and maybe some other customization.

i have my own server, know php - so i'm sure there is a relatively efficient way of doing this. i don't know much about DNS or apache so i just need a little help getting started. anybody know what i'm asking for and have ideas?

an example of somebody doing this already is UltSearch. this is a company that has thousands and thousands of domains. they all look the same. an example is chin.com. you can see it has a custom page title. i want to do the same thing.

[lgolding]

There is an easier way without using scripts, php or apps if you know a little javascript. Assuming you wish only to gather the domain name for making text on the page, or calling a ppc type page per domain, and perhaps making an email link for offers using that domain as the subject or similar.

Depending on how your host forwards or redirects your domains, see if you can set your domain to appear as the url in a redirected page. If so, make one catch all html page to redirect all domains to. Using javascript in that page, get the document.url value, slice out the http part and set x = to that (the domain). Then use document.write("the domain name "+x+ "is for sale!"); or whatever in the top row or something. Then later in the page do it again in an email link like document.write("youraddress@aol.com?subject="Offer for "+x);

If your host does not allow the domain to be displayed after a redirect, but does allow one page Hosting for each domain, then you could put this html page as the index for each domain, does the same thing.

A little bit better than the above for updating purposes would be as follows. Make one quick html page for each domain that detects the url as before, then does a javascript redirect to the one central html page with the domain passed as an argument thus: document.location=yourmainpage.com/index.html?domainname. That line is a document.write where the domainname is inserted as the argument. Then at the main page, the javascript there grabs the document.url, splits it at the ? and sets x= to whatever is after the ?. That sets you up again to display the domain again as previously described as desired, now on a centraly managed page where you can change affiliates, announcements or whatver universally.

Just a way to do things for free, but of course will limit the displayed page a bit. It still works for a frameset, where the content could be an applied semantics results page generated by using the x=domain name in their url to call the appropriate page.

[lgolding]

about the redirect.
Most hosts offer a free redirect ( aka forwarding) where you can set up each domain to redirect to any url. So you would set a doman to go to any full url path. Their server just redirects any domain, you don't have a homepage for your domain, but the target page appears to be the actual home page for that domain. It is that target page that you are trying to build, for any of the methods described inthis thread, using cgi, php, other scripts, or the html/javascript method I describe. each language get the domain differently, but each does the same thing with it to generate a page. The php or other scripts can do more with a database as another described in this thread, like get a for sale status and price.

Many hosts offer it, I use register4less.com. They are good enough to set my entire database of domains at their site to redirect to any page I request, so I could set every domain to redirect to the central page quickly, and the generated html from that central page apears custom to each domain. That is exactly what ult search is doing. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Banned: timechange.com]

lgolding wins the prize

That's what I do:

http://www.ponytail.org
http://www.HomelandSecurityAdvisorySystem.com
http://www.sunfind.com

etc

[mole]

Originally posted by chatcher
Javascript may be easier, but you lose everyone who doesn't have a javascript-capable client.

Like...?

[Banned: timechange.com]

Try less than 1%

Regardless, a server based solution works across the board (like the one I use).

PS Netscape 4.xx browsers should be outlawed

[Anthony Ng]

Originally posted by chatcher
Like older browsers, newer browsers with javascript turned off (sometimes by corporate security policy), search engine spiders, etc.

With even Javascript turned off, you probably can't go anywhere beyond your driveway.

And yes, the percentage is WAY MUCH LOWER than 10%.